This Charming Man

I'd say it's about time to start panicking and questioning the ability of the transfer committee.

Never thought of it like that. Damn my Dell sized mentality.

I'm in China at the moment and the vast majority of travellers I have met from all over the world have never even heard of Southampton (that obviously applies for city and football team). I just tell people I'm from London now as bored of trying to explain where Southampton is.

Spurs are a massive club, well known all over the world and with a decent enough history in Europe. It will take us a long time just to reach the level they were at 5 years ago.

I imagine we must be his last choice, surely? If someone with a serous offer and CL football comes along, there's no chance he will turn it down. Considering his ability, I wouldn't be surprised at all if that did happen.

Any mug can declare their interest in a player. Delivering players of this calibre are another thing though...

I've lost shoes on nights out before. Once lost a pair as I claimed I could throw them over a block of flats, they ended up on the newsagents roof just in front of the flat block. Another pair was lost on a beach when I was a little worse for wear. To this day I don't know of they were misplaced or robbed (I was in Bulgaria).

When England played Japan in Graz, Austria there was free Wifi in the stadium. Posting rubbish on Facebook/Twitter was far more entertaining than the actual game.

You had better hope for 2 days of rain if you want to see any play on Day 5.

Some people on here crack me up. Damiao had probably never even heard of us until his agent advised him we had made a bid. As for Napoli, they're one of the giants of European football with fanatical support and CL football to top it all off. Take your rosé tinted glasses off.

When you start throwing mincy little tantrums like that, it is inevitable that people will turn on you.

That's 803 maybes then. This is heading for a sell out, IMO.

Nobody is having a direct pop at you, just merely mocking the information that the stadium provided you. Now put your tampon back in.

Are you going to watch any Reading/Brighton/Bournemouth pre-season games?

The French border is only 45 mins away from us. You planning on taking any Le Harve pre-season games in?

The fact the game is being played in a poxy athletics stadium which is pay on the day suggests the locals and every tourist in the region on that day isn't going to be whipped into a frenzy by this fixture. Didn't Alpine mention the other day that the stadium didn't originally even know what his dorris was talking about when she enquired about the tickets? Then again, the stadium management could've been out setting up the rings of fences and security checks to cope with such demand? Maybe they were caught in the 4hr tailbacks regularly generated in this sleepy town with a population of 55k? Maybe Alpine should pitch a tent outside the turnstile so he can beat off competition from the 800 Schalke fans and 10,000 holidaymakers all desperate to catch a glimpse of De Ridder and Jos.

Agreed there. The gold is disgusting and makes it look cheap and nasty.

Horrible shirt and absolutely disgusting that NC seems adamant on moving away from our stripes. Still, it will be lapped up by the morons and bought in it's thousands.

So you don't enjoy weekends away with your mates on the beer? Seeing places you wouldn't normally visit? Why are you scared of going? Mrs won't let you? Scared you'll miss too much Eastenders? Worried you won't be able to get a pint of Carling over there?

That's what me and the 18 others I went with did last pre season.

"At the top of the global list, Oslo is followed by the Angolan capital of Luanda, where the goods and services commonly purchased by expatriates are difficult to access and command a premium"

I was in Oslo last summer and it was extortionate. Luckily we found some bar by some dodgy market that was about £5 a beer. The only downside was all the Somalian smackheads that also frequented the same place. I'm off to Tokyo this summer as well, anyone know where the Somalian smackheads drink there...?

I believe when we play Sociedad, that will be for the new 'Cortese Cup'. The winning team also get's the opportunity to dine with Nicola Cortese.

We are the only club in the Premiership not to announce their pre season plans.

Seville is a stunning city. Probably one of the most picturesque cities I've ever visited.